I watched this two part documentary on Woody Allen last and I found it very inspiring in many ways. Firstly, it shows how Allen works, basically he makes a film a year and as soon as he's finished filming one film he starts writing the next, basically he is very prolific and a general workaholic, whether thats to take his mind of his clearly miserable view on life who knows but regardless I still found it compelling to watch a man dedicate himself to his work so much.
He also references something he jokes as being called the quantity theory which basically means he works and works and hopes to achieve something good along the way even if some things are bad and although I don't think it would help me working in the extreme way he does but I think I need to employ a similar drive and a quicker pace with my work.
The biggest thing I took from the documentary though was how Allen looks at life and some of the similarities in the way I think. Allen's view on life is basically that everything is pointless which is a common theme in a lot of his films. Like in Annie Hall for example:
And this is a thought that I know I've thought about a great deal and I'm sure most other people have but much like Allen I have tried to preoccupy with creative projects in order to keep busy, not as a distraction because I love to do it but more because that's one of the only things I see value in and it would be great to try and portray this in the work but not in a bleak, depressing way but in a more matter of fact kind of way, I don't really know how exactly but it is something I'm going to dwell on.
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